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Computer Games and Business English

16.00 CET on Sunday, 05 August 2012

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Graham Stanley http://about.me/blogefl http://www.digitalplay.info/blog

-----Original Message-----

From: a British Council Colleague (Egypt)

Sent: Sun 7/29/2012 5:29 PM

To: Stanley, Graham (Spain)

Subject: FW IATEFL eBulletin July 2012

Interested to see this thing about the war games weekend in August. Is someone from the BC going?

BESIG war games weekendBESIG war games weekend

“..this thing about the war games weekend in August”

BESIG “BESIG “war games thingwar games thing” plan” plan

1. World of Work vs World of Warcraft

2. Why games such as WoW matter

3. Stereotypes – games

4. Videogames & Business English Teaching

5. Final pitch – Why?

6. Further Reading

7. Questions

8. Buy our book

Why bother?Why bother?

USA Today (2004):

If you’re over 35, chances are you view video games as, at best, an occasional distraction….If you’re under 35, games are a major entertainment and a part of life...In that sense, they are similar to what rock ‘n’ roll meant to [baby] boomers...

Do you play videogames?

World World of of

WorkWork

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wovox/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thewayfarer/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vokakvklim

World World of of

WarcraftWarcraft

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennbatuyong

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29672012@N03

http://www.flickr.com/photos/therift/

About About World World

of of WarcraftWarcraft http://www.flickr.com/photos/

candescence

10 million players worldwide / freemium (subscription) model 10 million players worldwide / freemium (subscription) model

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingfox

MMORPG – Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing GameMMORPG – Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

About About World World

of of WarcraftWarcraft

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwana

Decision-making / Real-time communication / Decision-making / Real-time communication / Parties & GuildsParties & Guilds

About About World World

of of WarcraftWarcraft

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2009-01-14/

“This video game demonstrates in its structure and scoring somefundamental principles for training employees to think creatively”

“Few executives have heard of this game, much less participated in it, despite the fact that over 10 million players are active in it around the world. Upon hearing this, most executives are likely to respond that "that's an awful lot of pimply teenagers," falling back on a conventional stereotype about video game players. In fact, the majority of the players are in the 23-39-year-old bracket and are deeply engaged. The average player invests about 23 hours per week playing the game.”

Relevance to BusinessRelevance to Business

StereotypesMMOs

Almost all MMO players are male (= 60%)Only single people play MMOs (=36% married)

People play alone (=43%)People play with strangers (=20%)

People spend an unhealthy amount of time per week playing the game

(21 hours + 7 hours of TVvs 28 hours watching TV)

http://info.rjmetrics.com/

WoWWoW

The new golf?The new golf?

Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVZ50qAQrpc

WoW Guild / Raiding parties

Working in a geographically dispersed team

Information management

Organisation skills

Strategic planning

Decision-making

Team work, etc.

= Skills that are highly valuedIn 21st century workplace

= Reason why some people are now putting WoW on CVs

Leeroy Jenkins

a WoW raid that goes wrong

Is World of Warcraft on your CV?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation

http://www.guardian.co.uk

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01

Test 1: Warcraft or Work acronyms?

SAYE PWN GTTM SLA TNSTAAFL TOAD MMORPG TLDR BMY XP FIFO MT HoT

Work acronyms

SAYE – Save as you earn

SLA – Service Level Agreement

TNSTAAFL – There's no such thing as a free lunch

TOAD – Take ownership and deliver

BMY – Before my time

FIFO – Fly in, fly out

GTTM – Going through the motions

http://www.getebooks.co.uk/businessphrases.php

Warcraft acronyms

MMORPG – Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

XP – Experience

MT – Mistell (used when a player sent a message to the wrong person or channel)

HoT(s) – Heals over time

PWN – own, as in 'dominate another character'

TLDR – Too long, didn't read

http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warcraft_terminology

Test 2: Work or Warcraft jargon?

noob zerg think outside the box

circle the wagons capture the flag

touch base griefer gold farmer iggy

give 110% corpse jumping

boil the ocean grab the low hanging fruit

hard stop crowd control drill down

move the needle leeroy ducks in a row

Work or Warcraft jargon?

noob zerg think outside the box

circle the wagons capture the flag

touch base griefer gold farmer iggy

give 110% corpse jumping

boil the ocean grab the low hanging fruit

hard stop crowd control drill down

move the needle leeroy ducks in a row

Circle the wagons: work together to protect each other

Boil the ocean: to waste time

Grab the low hanging fruit: do the easy things first

Hard stop: end to a meeting because someone has something else scheduled directly afterwards

Drill down: examine a subject more closely

Move the needle: if something doesn't move the needle, someone doesn't like it very much

Ducks in a row: set everything in order

Work Jargon answers

http://www.forbes.com/2011/01/06/annoying-business-jargon-entrepreneurs-business.html

Warcraft Jargon answers

Crowd control: any of various mechanisms used temporarily to limit an enemy's movements or behavior

Corpse jumping: to run as far as you can towards your destination before getting killed. Your corpse then runs from the nearest graveyard back to your body. You resurrect as far away from your body and as close to your goal as possible, repeating as many times as is necessary to reach your goal

Noob/Newb/n00b/nub: Derogatory derivation of "newbie" - someone new to the game, applied to a new player that does not know what they are doing. Commonly used as a synonym for moron, idiot, imbecile

http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warcraft_terminology

Warcraft Jargon answersGold farmer: Characters that do nothing but farm money

and high-value loot in order to sell in-game gold to other players for real-world money

Griefer: a player who goes out of their way to anger other players

Iggy: Add someone to the Ignore list

Zerg: To overwhelm an enemy or attack a target in an attempt to win by sheer numbers, rather than skill.

Leeroy: (verb) Charging unprepared into combat and causing your party to be wiped out. Reference to the "Leeroy Jenkins" video (more than 31 million views)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU

http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warcraft_terminology

Videogames & Business Videogames & Business English TeachingEnglish Teaching

Areas: Marketing & Sales Design engineering Finance

Context: One-to-one Class Blended Learning ESP

Skills: Discussion Writing Extended reading Games:Gamification Serious Games Interactive fiction Online games Mobile phone games iPad games

cc

Gamification

Gamification is the use of game design and principles Gamification is the use of game design and principles to solve problems and engage audiencesto solve problems and engage audiences

Contexts: Sales & MarketingContexts: Sales & Marketing

Plus One Me

http://plusoneme.com

Gamification

Contexts: Blended LearningContexts: Blended Learning

http://playspent.org/

Contexts: Reading/ class discussionContexts: Reading/ class discussion

http://www.marketplace-live.com/

Contexts: Business simulation gameContexts: Business simulation game

http://czczcz.hubpages.com/hub/Stock-Market-Games-for-iPhone-and-iPad

Contexts: Stock market / iPhone & iPadContexts: Stock market / iPhone & iPad

http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/dragons-den-the-official-game

Contexts: Reading / iPAd gameContexts: Reading / iPAd game

http://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/presentation-game-compact/id535109987?mt=8

Contexts: Presentations / iPAd & iPodContexts: Presentations / iPAd & iPod

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/air-tycoon-2-hd/id489241794?mt=8

Contexts: Simulations / iPadContexts: Simulations / iPad

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-corp.-hd/id399378951?mt=8

“Games are a more natural way to learn

than traditional classrooms. Not only have humans been learning by playing games since the beginning of our species, but

intelligent animals have as well.”

(Clark Aldrich, Learning Online with Games,Simulations and Virtual Worlds, 2009)

http://www.clarkaldrichdesigns.com

Why?Final pitchFinal pitch

Relevance

There are 1 million gamers in UK

Average young person in UK will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of 21*

*Jane McGonigal - Reality is broken

Why?

Engaging

Games make learning fun

Games capture learners' attention

Why?

Communication

Games encourage language production

Learners love talking about games

Why?

Teaching

Games can be easily adapted for teaching

Games can be used to practise all language skills

Why?

Recommended Reading

Further Information

Games and simulations in workplace eLearninghttp://www.twitchspeed.com/site/download/thesis_final.pdf

Siwek, S.E (2010) Videogames in the 21st Century, ESA, US http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/VideoGames21stCentury_2010.pdf

World of Warcraft: http://eu.battle.net/wow/

Thankyou

Any questions?

Graham Stanley http://about.me/blogefl http://www.digitalplay.info/blog